Comic Gone

WORDPLAY!

But I bring up a serious issue here. At some point in the past decade, the San Diego Comic Convention, more commonly known as #comiccon, (which I always internalize as Comic Cocoon) warped into some hideous orifice that popular culture realized could be used to fuck the previously socially quarantined Land of Geekdom.

I blame the success of Marvel's bastardization initiative, through which they have increasingly churned out highly successful cinematic fecal based on the canons of their beloved characters. The financial returns on Marvel's films have done what few would have thought possible: Make comic books cool. Well, not actually cool, but make them a cool source for easy ideas. I can just see the coked-out studio execs tripping balls when they realize they don't have to hire anyone involved in preproduction.

"And, it's like, it's like, it's like.... it's a script.... but it's storyboards at the same time, bro! We don't have to do shit!"

"FUCK YES BRO. Get Shia on the phone. We can be shooting by next week!"

"TIGHT. Now let's skull-fuck this treatment of Halo in, like, 20, and then it's Jaeger bombs at the Geisha House!"

Also, that episode of Entourage where they go to Comic Con didn't help. But it was too late by that point.

Even less than ten years ago, it was something of an intriguing novelty that movies based on comics had panels at Comic Con. Now, MTV is debuting its new Teen Wolf series (the existence of which in and of itself makes me want to hurt things) at the convention.

Much of the convention is still devoted to comics, but that fact gets very little press coverage. I don't know why I'm surprised at this, but I just find it upsetting that no media outlets seem to have any desire to cover any of the convention's titular implications.

Eh. I'm ranting.